Happily, my lecture at the University of British Columbia, Canada, now has over 330,000 views. It now also has the option of subtitles in English and Portuguese. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BGbHG63x8w
UBC postmodernism lecture — now with subtitles Read More »
This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The first three chapters now available with timestamps: Chapter One (What Postmodernism Is), Chapter Two (The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason), and Chapter Three (The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason), are here. Narrated by the author, Stephen R. C. Hicks. The next three chapters
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Virtue: knowledge? character? disposition? habit? action? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has great impact
What Is Virtue? | Philosophy for Real Life (9 of 22) | Stephen Hicks Read More »
Opening line of a 1758 essay by David Hume: “Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.” (“Of the
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A year before the United States entered World War Two, the New York Herald Tribune published this report on a speech in Berlin by the German Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler: Hitler To ‘Defeat Entire World’ But He Says He’ll Pick the Time Fuehrer Adjures Workers to Toil and Be Patient, Asserts It’s a War of Labor
Hitler in the New York Herald Tribune, 1940 Read More »
I’ll be speaking again with the London-England-based “Triggernometry” team, Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin. The live interview is scheduled for 5 p.m. GMT (11 a.m. Central) on November 25 and will be published thereafter on social media. Our topics will be the many intellectuals with supported National Socialism — Heidegger, Schmitt, Dietrich — along with
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In this forth session of “The Capitalism Course” we will be discussing: “Is Capitalism Peaceful or Warlike?” When: Wednesday, November 24, 7 p.m. Central Time. Where: MyJunto. Registration is free and open to anyone interested. While the course has no prerequisites, the expectation for participants is that they will have read or viewed the preparatory
This article by Robert Tracinski is very good. He points out that Hume woke Kant from his dogmatic slumber and that Kant then devised a fundamental shift away from the Enlightenment, thus setting the stage for Hegel, Marx, the Frankfurt School, and now Wokism. “This all goes back to Kant’s upside-down idea of what is
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